China steals top spot as world's largest PC market

China surpassed the United States as the world’s largest PC market during the second quarter of 2011 according to a new report from IDC. PC shipments in China totaled 18.5 million units during the second quarter, more than the 17.7 million units shipped in the United States. The research firm is projecting that Chinese PC shipments will total 85.1 million units next year, compared to just 76.6 million units shipped in the U.S. The influx of new tablet devices and advanced smartphones, such as Apple’s iPhone and iPad, may be driving consumer interest away from notebooks and traditional desktop PCs in developed markets, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. “The center of gravity of the PC industry has shifted away from the developed world,” Wolf Group Asia CEO David Wolf said. China’s growth helped Lenovo become the third-largest PC maker, behind HP and Dell, with a 12.2% of global PC shipments. HP’s share of the Chinese market dropped from a 16.6% during the third quarter of 2009 to 8.5% during the second quarter of 2011. The decline has been partially blamed on buggy NVIDIA chips that shipped in HP devices last year. HP recently announced that it is considering a partial or full separation from its personal systems group.

And Apple wont get a penny of that. Chinese people are very smart so they are by nature Goofans (aka Apple Haters!). They understand Apple is for idiots. Google owns China!!!! Right? All those rumors in the papers are propaganda by Apple. Right?

Rudy

Actually Apple is the leading force behind the increase in sales.

Don’t get me wrong, I will be the last to own an Apple product again, but I found a lot of the Asian countries love American culture. So if American’s love Apple or are shown to love Apple (even if market share doesn’t dictate), guess what will be extremely popular in Asia?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504970952 Matt Holland

They also eat dogs. What’s your point?

Anonymous

And we eat pigs and cows. What’s your point? Are some animals branded eatable and others not by nature. If so, I’d like to see where that’s done and by who. Some cultures consider cows sacred.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Riggs/100002889339765 Matt Riggs

i got an iPad 2 (32GB) for $ 23.87 and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 657 which only cost me $ 62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, http://to.ly/b04f

Matthew Eitelberg

Steals?

Steals the top spot? The headline implies it was our to keep.

zacamandapio

Congratulations!!!!
Now bring the jobs here to the US and export them to them!!

The china has become fast suppliers of many things, it is also a country that is very fast improving when it comes to technology. We can also so they also have cheapest items that you can also find in United states.